Thrive America Logo
January 12, 2009 at 5:37 pm | Posted in process, projects | 1 CommentTags: america, blank stage productions, design, interviews, logo, logos, thrive america
I am sick.
I seem to have caught a cold or something over the weekend. Now I have random periods of dizzy spells and it’s a struggle to walk anywhere. A lot has happened the past few days: I went to the Blank Stage Productions studio, I started the Spring semester, and my fiance, my siblings, and I went to a protest held in Atlanta on Saturday. I am in the process of uploading pictures on a Flickr account that I will share here soon.
I loved going to the studio with Brent though. Right now, I’m working on a logo for his Thrive America project which includes a series of interviews with entrepreneurs and consultants who give advice to those who have been laid off or who want to start their own businesses. It’s a great and timely idea and I advise everyone to go and check it out.
During the filming of the interview with Chris, the PC Doc, I was working on a couple of sketches for Thrive America’s logo.
Before the studio visit, I felt very drained of ideas for the logo but while I was there, a plethora of ideas bursted onto the paper. I’m not sure if it was being around the crew or sitting in the studio or what, but it somehow boosted my creative productivity. I have heard somewhere that changing your environment can do that for you so perhaps I should try that the next time I feel uninspired.
Here is what the ThriveAmerica crew narrowed it down to:
According to Club Flyers, my business cards should be arriving any time now. Hooray!
3 Coloring Tutorials
January 6, 2009 at 2:29 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a commentFor my aspiring artistic audience, I want to share a few coloring tutorials I’ve collected on DeviantArt. I’m a tutorial addict. I don’t get to use many of the tutorials I find but I felt it’d be a sin for me to keep these away from the public.
+CRAYOLA WATERCOLORS TUTORIAL+ by =beautiful-shinigami on deviantART
It’s not always about the tools you use (although sometimes, it is) but how you use them and beautiful-shinigami proves it. This may be a good tutorial for people who want to try out watercolor but don’t want to dish out the money on the tools just yet. If you want to shoot for that classic watercolor anime style, look here.
Marker Tutorial Thinger… by ~Atomic-Clover on deviantART
My weapon of choice has grown to be the Prismamarker, unwieldy to inexperienced hands but a powerful medium when harnessed. true, Atomic-Clover uses a couple of Copic markers here too but with careful color selection, I think you can harvest the same effect. The colors I usually use for white skin is eggshell for the base and then light peach to build value.
How I Color With Photoshop by Twisted666 (Now MushroomTale )
Twisted666’s tutorial was one of the first Photoshop coloring tutorials I’d come across and I reference it even now. Coloring via Photoshop, I feel, is still far from my strong point but this tutorial never fails to help me out. 🙂
Interestingly, I use Photoshop tutorials to help me with my coloring in general. I’ll adopt some of the same points and techniques with markers. Looking at tutorials, then, can help develop your skills in less obvious ways if you try to keep an open mind and apply it elsewhere.
Hope these tips help!
Business Card: Early Concepts & Final Copy
January 2, 2009 at 8:26 pm | Posted in process, projects | Leave a commentTags: art, business card, contact, design, ideas
I am a little bummed out.
I wanted to register HavanaGraphics or Havana Designs or something similar but they’re already taken. It’s really gotten me down but I’m trying to do my best with what I have. Can’t let anything in the way, can we?
I seem to do my best work when I’m drawing or designing for someone but when it comes to working for myself, it becomes so frustrating. It plagues every artist, writer, designer, performer, musician: it’s just never good enough. I suppose I’m being much too hard on myself, but I really want to finish a business card design for myself so I can get them printed!
Here are a few designs I whipped up the past few weeks.
But I’ve finally decided on a design and I just ordered them from Club Flyers an hour ago! 🙂
The texture came from some scrapbook paper I bought from Michaels and the brushes are from Smashing Magazine. I am quite pleased with it and can’t wait ’til they come in! 🙂
Man, I’ve been watching nothing on Youtube except Disney musical numbers the past two days. Gotta love em.
Hello ’09!
January 2, 2009 at 4:02 am | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a commentTags: 2009, amazing, astronomy, carl sagan, earth, environment, green, history, humanity, international year of astronomy, new year, philosophy, planet, space, stars
Happy New Year! May 2009 be wonderful to you. 🙂
Btw, I think it’s awesome that 2009 is the International Year of Astronomy! To commemorate, I post a reading by Carl Sagan:
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